Title: Final Exam: Written
Course: Alternative & Augmentative Comm (SLPA 210-SLPA 210) > Section: Assessments

Q: How many students with AAC needs are on a typical school SLP's caseload?
A: 4

Q: When designing an AAC system, what four types of messages (i.e., purposes for communication) does an individual need in order to communicate in various contexts? Give an example of each message type.
Feedback: Wants & needs Information sharing Social closeness Social etiquette

Q: Can sign language help improve a child’s communication? Explain.
Feedback: Yes. Child may not have motor skills to speak, but have motor skills for manual gestures. The child could communicate through gestures until motor speech skills improve. Use of sign language does not interfere with speech development, but may help to facilitate spoken communication skills. Children combine gestures with intent before they use verbal language Gestures stimulate development of verbal abilities, reciprocity and interaction. Research supports use of sign and gesture for communication. Gesture + Word fosters symbolic skills

Q: Define "core words" and give 2 examples of core words.

Q: Does the client have to understand the symbols on the AAC system before they are added? Explain.

Q: What are the prerequisites to using AAC?
Feedback: There are no prerequisites to use AAC.

Q: What does “initiating communication” mean in PECS training?
Feedback: Approach another person and make a request without prompting or questions.

Q: What is the difference between alternative communication and augmentative communication?
Feedback: Augmentative – AAC system supplements (augments) existing methods of communication Alternative – AAC system becomes the primary and perhaps only means of communication

Q: What is the difference between aided and unaided AAC?
Feedback: Unaided - Nonverbal means of natural communication, manual signs, ASL Aided - require some additional external support

Q: What is the purpose of AAC?
Feedback: facilitate communication by supporting an individual’s expressive communication through the use of techniques, strategies, equipment, or other resources

Q: Which special populations (etiologies or diagnostic categories) have a higher percentage of nonverbal or minimally verbal individuals?  List at least 3.
Feedback: Developmental impairments (often congenital) Cerebral palsy Autism Developmental (childhood) apraxia of speech Cognitive disability Acquired disorders (can be progressive) Stroke TBI ALS Also Hearing impairment Deaf/blind

Q: Your student is a 4 year-old boy with Down's Syndrome who has a GoTalk 9 communication device.  His parents have told you that he will be gone from school next week Friday for outpatient surgery to have tubes put in his ears.  They have asked you and the SLP to design a communication overlay for his device that will allow him to answer questions for his parents and the hospital staff during his hospital visit (pre and post surgery) and when they return home to recouperate.  List 9 messages that you would incorporate into the overlay for parents to program into his device and tell why these messages would be important for him.

Q: Label the following AAC systems as no tech, low tech or high tech, and as aided or unaided.
a. Signaling button-a device that has a button that is pressed in order to make a selection
b. Paper and pen
c. Sign language
d. Voice output device, such as the Go Talk
e. Gestures
f. Alphabet board to indicate the letters not clear to the listener or to spell out the message
g. Symbol book of picture choices an individual commonly uses
h. Eye gaze Plexiglas board to visually select between spaced picture or word choices
A: 1 = low tech aided; 2 = no tech aided; 3 = no tech unaided; 4 = high tech aided; 5 = no tech unaided; 6 = low tech aided; 7 = low tech aided; 8 = low tech aided

Q: ____________________ increases, maintains, or improves functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.
- Assistive technology
- High-tech AAC
- Augmentative and alternative communication
A: Assistive technology

Q: According to the course "Mid to High-Tech AAC Options & Strategies for Classroom Use," which of the following statements is true in regards to collaborating with families and other professionals?
- You gain information regarding a student's academic and behavioral performance and needs.
- Collaboration promotes consistency across a student's environements and communication partners.
- You gain information regarding a student's positioning and access needs
A: (a choice with no text)

Q: According to the Goossens', Crain & Elder color coding system, a symbol for the word under would be _________________________.
- pink
- blue
- green
- orange
A: green

Q: According to the Goossens', Crain & Elder color coding system, a symbol for eat would be _________________.
- pink
- blue
- green
- yellow
A: pink

Q: The member of the AAC team who would be responsible for ensuring that a client with motor (movement) impairments is able to access his/her device would be the ________________________.
- Social Worker
- Physical Therapist
- Speech-Language Pathologist
- Psychologist
A: Physical Therapist

Q: Using the arrangement recommended on the color-coding handout from class, the word chair would be found __________.
- in the far left column of the device display
- in the column second to the left on the device display
- in the bottom row of the device display
- in the far right column of the device display
A: in the far right column of the device display

Q: Using the arrangement recommended in your color-coding handout, the symbol for "don't" would most likely be found _________________________.
- in the left-most column of the display
- in the middle of the display
- on the top row of the display
- in the right-most column of the display
A: in the left-most column of the display

Q: When participating in a shared book reading activity with her one-on-one aide, Josey will describe pictures with 2-word phrases using a 16-button display on the Proloquo2Go app with 80% accuracy in 2 consecutive sessions.  The underlined part of this goal is the _____________________.
- measurable criteria
- multimodal strategy
- prompt
- communication task
A: communication task

Q: Which of the following is not an aspect of communicative competence?
- linguistic competence
- social competence
- strategic competence
- operational competence
A: (a choice with no text)